17:20 Now at one point ¹  the Pharisees ²  asked Jesus ³  when the kingdom of God ⁴  was coming, so he answered, “The kingdom of God is not coming with signs ⁵  to be observed, 17:21 nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is ⁶  in your midst.” ⁷ 

17:22 Then ⁸  he said to the disciples, “The days are coming when you will desire to see one of the days ⁹  of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. 17:23 Then people ¹⁰  will say to you, ‘Look, there he is!’ ¹¹  or ‘Look, here he is!’ Do not go out or chase after them. ¹²  17:24 For just like the lightning flashes ¹³  and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day. ¹⁴  17:25 But first he must ¹⁵  suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. 17:26 Just ¹⁶  as it was ¹⁷  in the days of Noah, ¹⁸  so too it will be in the days of the Son of Man. 17:27 People ¹⁹  were eating, ²⁰  they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage – right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then ²¹  the flood came and destroyed them all. ²²  17:28 Likewise, just as it was ²³  in the days of Lot, people ²⁴  were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building; 17:29 but on the day Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. ²⁵  17:30 It will be the same on the day the Son of Man is revealed. 17:31 On that day, anyone who is on the roof, ²⁶  with his goods in the house, must not come down ²⁷  to take them away, and likewise the person in the field must not turn back. 17:32 Remember Lot’s wife! ²⁸  17:33 Whoever tries to keep ²⁹  his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life ³⁰  will preserve it. 17:34 I tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed; one will be taken and the other left. ³¹  17:35 There will be two women grinding grain together; ³²  one will be taken and the other left.”

17:37 Then ³⁴  the disciples ³⁵  said ³⁶  to him, “Where, ³⁷  Lord?” He replied to them, “Where the dead body ³⁸  is, there the vultures ³⁹  will gather.” ⁴⁰